Some Necessary Things that has helped me to be prepared For Marriage

Good Morning, or Good Afternoon, or Good Evening, 

this post should take approximately five to eight minutes to read. 

If you are currently married to your spouse, what was some of the necessary things that has helped you and your spouse to be prepared for civil marriage or eternal marriage? Did you and your spouse had to take any necessary steps to make sure that everything will go smoothly on your wedding day?

Was there anything that you and your spouse would have changed to help you and your spouse to prepare better for marriage? Did you and your spouse felt calm or stressed throughout the wedding planning?

This post focuses on sharing some of the necessary things that has helped me to be prepared for eternal marriage. I must say; preparing for marriage was somewhat difficult and came with multiple challenges.

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving
deeply gives you courage."

I remembered three years prior to meeting my husband online and while I was in Perth for short stay; I must admit I was nineteen years old, I was able to go on dates with mostly temple worthy guys, who has high standards and were returned missionaries. I didn't felt a desire to persuade myself to be ready and be fully committed into a relationship.

I enjoyed those past dates because it was able to help me to work out what exactly I was looking for in a future husband at the time. I obviously learned that during those dates, it helps me understood and the reasons why I didn't like certain things. I know that I didn't like to have a huge age difference, I mean like no more than three years difference because I didn't want to make myself feel awkward.

I also didn't like to put myself into unexpected situations for me to drive to the locations where the dates was because it felt like totally unfair on me and who knows what would have happened if the guys went ahead to change his mind and gone on a date with someone else when I just arrived to the location. I also didn't like to go on dates and not being able to talk to one another because dates are suppose to be able to get to know one another and feel comfortable of able to talk to each other.

I also didn't like people misjudged and just assumed that I was someone's girlfriend because it has made me felt uncomfortable and I don't know how it truly looked like if we were boyfriend and girlfriend on the first date.

During dating stages with my husband has truly helped me to get to know him a lot. There has been countless times that I could think of that my husband has been there for me, he often done his best to show me that he supports me, he often done his best to show me that he cares about me, he often done his best to always remember to tell me that he loves me, he often done his best to always remember to tell me that he misses me, he often kept me feeling happy, and so forth.

Being an endowed church member and being faithful to my covenants that I have made in the Temple was a massive blessing to me and my husband. I have been aware of engaged couples that an individual has to go and receive his or her endowments just not long prior to their wedding day even just on their wedding day. It makes me sad that the couple didn't have much opportunities to attend more than two endowment sessions and sealings prior to getting married.

Therefore, my husband and I had multiple opportunities when we were able to attend more than two endowment sessions, and sealings as individuals. It has helped me to prepare to know the blessings that comes from being sealed. It makes me feel joy and happiness.

My husband and I was able to be spiritual prepared by doing our best to have couple scripture study often and taking turns who gets to say the couple prayers prior to getting married. It has helped me to prepare for deeper understanding of the purpose why we have the scriptures available to us in our lives. It certainly became a habit for having couple scripture study and couple prayers because we continue doing that throughout our marriage thus far.

Prior to me leaving Australia last July, I was employed at Domino's and I was able to save up as much as I can. I knew that I was financially stable because I was able to do my very best to rely on the income that I was earning to pay all necessary bills and I was able to set a budget. Budget is a useful skill to prepare for eternal marriage because not all marriages are cheap and it's good habit to have a budget. Having a budget comes very handy throughout marriage, it's good way to keep track of expenses, and saving up funds.

Just getting sealed in a LDS Temple may seem to be FREE but you got to think about you still have to purchase marriage license prior to getting sealed in the Temple. Marriage license cost money.

I had multiple opportunities for me to be able to learn how to cook and what to cook for dinner meals. It has helped me to prepare of having a rough idea for what I can make dinner meals for me and my husband. It definitely is a lot healthier to cook dinner meals at home versus eating a lot of takeaways and at fast food restaurants.

I can think of a lot of other necessary things that has helped me to be prepared for eternal marriage. However I would allow you to think about, and ponder about what was some of the necessary things that has helped you and your spouse to be prepared for civil marriage or eternal marriage.

Stay Tuned until next time.